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Jürgen Wolfgang Maier or Juergen Wolfgang Maier (born 12 January 1964) is a British-Austrian businessman, and the Chief Executive of Siemens UK.
Early life
He was born in Germany, though holds Austrian citizenship. He lived in Karlsruhe. He came to the UK in 1974, to Leeds, where he went to school at Allerton Grange School, from 1978.
He studied Production Engineering at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham (now Nottingham Trent University) from 1982-86.
Career
Maier has occupied senior posts with Siemens, including industry sector lead for the UK and Ireland and Manufacturing Director of the Drives Factory in Congleton, Cheshire. He became a member of the Siemens UK Executive Management Board in October 2008, and was appointed Chief Executive on 1 July 2014.
He became a non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) of the UK government in September 2014.